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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.

2. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.

4. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?

5. ________ is a co-founder of ecocriticism with Harold Fromm that developed in the early-1990s in the USA.

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does the narrator say queer theory differs from lesbian feminism?

2. Explain what liberal humanism and stylistics have in common.

3. How does Barry use the term "discourse" in relation to narratology? Who else used such term according to Barry?

4. What were some of the influences on early Marxist thinking?

5. What is lesbian feminism?

6. What is discourse as it relates to new historicism?

7. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?

8. Who was Karl Marx?

9. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

10. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify, list, and describe the specific functions ecocritics perform in their analysis of literary text.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how women are represented by both men and women in a piece of literature that you have read in the past. Explain how this representation of women would be viewed by feminist critics.

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss how and why Sigmund Freud is relevant to literary theory. Give at least five supporting examples that indicate that relevance.

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